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Reggie Reed Jr. with the title “The day when my mother never came home”.

On this day, August 23, 1987, Selonia Reed’s body was found in her car in front of a Hammond Convenience business. She had been raped and beaten; The autopsy showed that the cause of death was four sponge wounds in her heart. Reed Jr., her only child, was 6 years old.

“She would shed light on every room in which she would go and she was very accessible,” recalled Reed Jr. on Thursday from San Antonio, where he and his family had lived for 15 years. “I was basically her world, you know, only of what I hear about your family and friends.

Justice for Selonia Reed, who was 26 years old when she died, would only come 35 years later when Reggie Reed Sr., her husband and Reggie Jr.’s father, was convicted of crime at the end of 2022. In early 2023, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without probation.

The life of Reed Jr. and his book “A True Crime Memoiren” will be the subject of a “48 hour” segment on Saturday at 9 p.m.

“I had the feeling that it was needed (the book) to transform this situation into a positive and my own story as an adult,” said Reed Jr., now 44.

“Really, it was not to earn money and all of this. It is really to help people deal with trauma and deal, to be vulnerable and share my story,” he said. “… I will make myself out there as a regular person. I have built up a successful life after I have faced it. I just want to encourage others who have dealt with trauma or things, whether this is this size or something smaller or in the middle that they still make something out of it and still continue with life and be successful and be successful.”

The writing process also proved to be a cathartic for Reed Jr.

“When you write about it, it is similar to talking about it.” It definitely also served a healing process for me.

“Because it is one of the things when I speak to different people or in podcasts, I am the first step in dealing with trauma that you have to own. You have to recognize it, you cannot avoid it. You have to know what I mean? You can’t just put it away, you really have to deal with friends because it is part of you.”

Specific plans for the book coincided with the indictment against Reed Sr. 2019 in the death of his wife. At the time, he had told the police that his wife had left the house last night and said she would go out and he played video games with his son at the time of the murder.

The Selonia Reed case soon became cold. Years later, the DNA tests led to another man, Jimmy Ray Barnes, to another man, to another man. Barnes in Atlanta told the investigators that he was the key to solving the case and finally said that he picked up Reed Sr. from the crime scene, but it was Reed Sr.

Barnes with loan for the time was released and Reed Sr., who claims his innocence, was found guilty. It is recorded in the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel.

“My father’s life, but Jimmy is no longer here. He died like a year ago,” said Reed SR ..

Reed Jr. was probably surprising and said he visited his father in prison on last Father’s Day, and the two often talked by phone.

“Newsweek published an article about a year ago that I continued to upright my relationship with my father and the Internet rollers …”, said Reed Jr. “Oh, he is crazy, he is psychotic, but a lot of people don’t understand. My father raised me. You don’t really understand, unless you are in such a situation, you know? He raised me and he was a good father.

He thinks not to be forgiven if you don’t just hurt yourself.

“This is not Joe Blow, whom I give. This is my father, you know? What happened, what happened. I can’t change that, it happened,” he said. “I can control what I can control. I can control how this story progresses, I can control the narrative.”